@mhoye I agree. As I remember, most of the backlash (#glassholes) was about the fact that the thing was continuously capturing its webcam feed. Now, we live among all kinds of tech which does the same, it may not receive the same critique today.
(Not that I'm at all happy with this normalisation but yeah)
@mhoye@oddly
I think it neatly illustrates the point.
There was a lot of misinformation about what Glass could do. The idea that it was continually live-streaming video was simply not true.
But people believed it to be true (ignoring that camera-phones already had that capability and it was far less obvious when they were recording / streaming).
And that's one of the things that killed it. The perception of privacy infringement coupled with obnoxious users was a death-blow.
@Edent This made me think of how much the perception of tech landscape has changed in 10 years.
As you say, this was exciting and discourse was healthy and future-driven.
Today has much better even more amazing tech, but the outlook on its implementation is as grim as it gets. Maybe its just me, but corporate abuse of its users, constant lack of care with privacy breaches, lack of accountability, aggressive data hoarding etc..
Damn shame this will be another avenue to violate its users((
@Edent my employer at the time had a pair of Google Glasses to work on a really exciting use case. We were providing car-related services to members (breakdown assistance etc) and the idea was that when a service person pulls up to a breakdown, Google Glass could read the plate and display all relevant information about the car.
Sadly Google pulled the plug on Glass before the idea could gain any traction.
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